Aesthetics: Narrative Temporal discontinuity
Description
When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Adage
- African-American folk sayings
- Alternative story
- Anti-climax
- Anticipation
- Argument
- Background
- Child's perspective
- Chronological enjambment
- Collaborative narration
- Commentary
- Communal narrative
- Conjectural narration
- Contested
- Conversation with oneself
- Cyclical
- Delayed revelation
- Disruption
- Epiphany
- Fantasy
- First-person
- First-person passim
- First-person passim throughout section
- First-person plural passim
- First-person vernacular
- First-person vernacular passim
- Foreshadowing
- Frame
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- Imagined conversation
- Indeterminacy
- Irony
- Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
- Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
- Narrative anomaly
- Narrative shift
- Origin
- Parentheses
- Pause
- Perspective
- Present-time reference
- Quotation as thought
- Reconstructed
- Repetition
- Reported narration
- Reported narration passim
- Reported narration passim in section
- Resumption of sentence after interruption
- Revision
- Revisionary
- Second-person directed
- Self-correction
- Self-Reflective
- Stream of consciousness narration
- Summary
- Suspended|Resumed
- Suspense
- Temporal projection
- Theatrical effect
- Under oath
- Unidentified character
- Unreliable narrator
- Withholding
Tagged Events
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social decline | Education›Trade school | Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dysfunctional | Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Change over time | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-nature
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Parody | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity